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Five graduate students awarded FMC Fellowships
Jeff Unger, News Bureau
(217) 333-1085; junger@illinois.edu
5/20/2003
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Each of five University of Illinois graduate students – including
four from the Urbana campus – has been awarded a $9,000 FMC Graduate
Fellowship for the 2003-2004 academic year.
The fellowship program, established in 1971 as part of The FMC Technologies
Inc. Scholarships (formerly called the FMC Educational Fund), awards
the honors annually to outstanding graduate students in business administration, economics, engineering, finance or related fields.
FMC is a Chicago-based corporation that produces chemicals and machines
for agriculture and industry.
The 2003-2004 recipients:
Marinell
Davis of Chicago, who is pursuing a degree in veterinary
medicine at the Urbana campus.
Michele
Gribbins of Sullivan, Ill., who is pursuing a doctorate in business
administration at the Urbana campus.
Ashok Lalwani of Jaipur, India, who is pursuing a doctorate in business
administration at the Urbana campus.
Kevin Rock
of Downers Grove, Ill., who is pursuing a doctorate in organizational
behavior at the Urbana campus.
Brian Scott
of Chicago, who is pursuing a doctorate in economics at the Chicago
campus.
The winners were chosen by a three-person committee representing FMC
Technologies Inc., the University of Illinois and the University of
Illinois Foundation.
The
FMC Technologies Inc. Scholarships were was established as the Link-Belt
Educational Fund in 1963 by a donation by University of Illinois alumnus
Bert A. Gayman, a Link-Belt executive. A few years later, Link-Belt
merged into FMC Corp.
Gayman, a Champaign native who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering at the University of Illinois in 1897, spent his entire
career with the Link-Belt Co. in Chicago and chose to remain an anonymous
donor to the educational fund until 1973, a year before his death.
